I can’t believe the year 2009 is almost over. December marks the time to look back on the high and low lights of the year we are about to finish.

2009 was a pretty lackluster year for music and it seems that each year gets worse, but never fear – I was still able to come up with my favorite 9 albums of 2009. I’ll take them row by row as pictured above. Read my thoughts after the jump.